Olympia Dukakis Quotes
Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.
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No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
